some with anger at their commanders for underestimating the enemy, but they all said essentially the same thing.

The Spitfire was not supposed to exist.

In the world Guring promised them in the easy victories of Poland and France, there was no room for an enemy fighter that could match the BF 109.

But it did exist.

It was real.

It was there over Dunkirk, over the Channel, over England, day after day.

flown by pilots who would not quit.

 

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